With a mere bus or car obviously not being classy enough for the dolls of Rozen Maiden, the streets of Akiba have instead been graced with a Rozen limousine out promoting the new series – the mere sight of a stretch limo on the streets of Tokyo being unusual enough even without the loli livery.

Given the initial reception the anime faced, it may yet have its work cut out for it – fans not awed by the sight of an unusually long car have been moaning that perhaps the marketing budget might have been better spent on making sure the anime was up to scratch…

Okay, so the animation isn’t the greatest, but it’s still better than most the shows that aired this year. I don’t think the budget is the problem. The problem is the scriptwriting. Face it, the dude doing the directing is mostly a hack, just about everything else he’s done was porn. Well, he has worked with the great Shinbo-sama, so hopefully something has worn off. God, I hope so, I don’t want this show to suck.